Fifty years ago, the Kinks hit the charts with a catchy song about a romantic encounter in a London nightclub between a clueless young rube and an ingenue who “walked like a woman but talked like a ...

The Kinks were yesterday’s men as the 70s dawned, written off as 60s relics. Their only significant hit since 1967, Days, hardly arrested a calamitous, lift-shaft fall which hit bottom with a ...

Two years before Lou Reed’s “Walk On The Wild Side”, a British band introduced the world to a gender-fluid heroine. Brothers Ray and Dave Davies formed The Kinks in London in 1962. They first made a ...

Andrew Sandoval explains why he and co-author Doug Hinman are publishing an expanded history of the great British band, investing $100,000 in the project ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. The Kinks' “All Day and All Of The Night” debuts on three charts in ...

Here are four underappreciated songs written and sung by Kinks guitarist Dave Davies in honor of his birthday.

The Davies brothers, raised in North London near the Muswell Hill suburb that would inspire one of their albums, formed the Kinks in 1963, eventually adding Avory and the late bassist Pete Quaife. The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ray Davies and his younger brother Dave began gigging around North London as teenagers, playing with other future stars such as ...